It's quite simple really, every month I use about 15-20Gb of bandwidth (which is a silly amount as all the graphics are hosted off-site, so that's 15-20Gb of text).
When I signed up with the hosting company (MyOstrich) the bandwidth limit was something like 1Gb.
Unfortunately for the last three years or so I appear to have 'dropped through the cracks', so I haven't been charged yearly renewals, nor have they noticed the huge jump in my bandwidth through becoming an *cough* internet superstar *cough*.
So yesterday they realised. And shut me down.
Cue a frantic email halfway across the world, where I pleaded for help. I'd just like to thank the extemely helpful Tim at MyOstrich for sorting out my problem very quickly. I'm in his debt...
...quite literally because I'm now at the point where they work out how much money I owe them. I suspect that Mr Barclaycard is going to take a bit of a hit at some point in the near future.
I've been offered free hosting by the lovely Friday Project, but that would mean...
a) Setting up a Typepad/Moveable Type/Other Third party software.
b) Migrating everything across from my Blogware blog.
c) Trying to get the URL to redirect (which will be tricky as I don't 'own' it).
The thing is that I really like Blogware as they are a superbly friendly and helpful company with an excellent bit of software - so it looks like I'll be adding another big number to outgoing expenses this month, what with my £500 bill for new spectacles.
Good job I'm paid such a huge amount of money...
